Students smashing a million artifacts in a museum? Museum: It is a collection, and the cost of restoration is about 10,000 or 20,000

Recently, a student in Wuhan, Hubei Province, visited a museum to smash a million cultural relics, which aroused widespread concern and appeared on Weibo's hot search. On January 27, Nandu reporters learned from the Wuchang District Cultural Relics and Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center and the Zhenyuan Museum in Wuhan, where the incident occurred, that the damaged exhibits were actually tomb figurines, and the cultural relics that were not registered in the register were "not worth 1.3 million yuan." At present, the parents of the students and the museum have settled on the issue of compensation, and the cost of restoration is "about 10,000 or 20,000".

On January 22, a parent in Wuhan posted a message on a social platform that his son participated in the "5-day 1,000 yuan off-campus winter camp activity" and "broke 1.3 million worth of cultural relics" in the museum, "my heart was also broken", "ask the majority of netizens to support, what should I do?" ”

According to a video released by the parent, there was a half-human-tall exhibit in a corner of the museum, and a student was suspected of physically touching the exhibit when he passed, and then the exhibit broke from the middle part, and the upper part fell to the ground and was damaged. As the video continues to circulate on the Internet, many netizens have asked, "1.3 million cultural relics, just put like this?" "Is it a real artifact?" On January 27, Nandu reporters contacted and interviewed the above-mentioned parents without a response.

On January 26, a netizen who claimed to have witnessed the incident posted on social platforms that the damaged exhibit was the "Tang Dynasty Town Tomb Figurine", and after post-inquiry and monitoring, "it was determined that the child touched the middle of the body of the pottery figurine and borrowed a force ... The upper part of the figurine is poured in the opposite direction of the force." The article said that the museum "absolutely did not say this price (1.3 million)" and that there were "no touch signs" in the museum.

Nandu reporter learned that this incident occurred in the Zhenyuan Museum in Wuhan. According to public information, the museum is a non-state-owned comprehensive museum, and its business scope involves the collection and display of ancient Chinese artworks, cultural exchanges, and planning exhibitions. On January 27, the Wuhan Zhenyuan Museum told the Nandu reporter that the above netizens were employees of the museum, and the content described in the article was true.

On the same day, the staff of the Wuchang District Cultural Relics and Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center told Nandu reporters that the damaged exhibits were "not registered cultural relics", "a collection" and "not worth 1.3 million". The staff member revealed that at present, the parents and the museum have settled on the issue of compensation.

Wuhan Zhenyuan Museum told nandu reporter that the damaged exhibits were "returned from Japan", and after the relevant departments intervened to coordinate the parents and the museum to reach an agreement on the cost of repairing the exhibits, "not counting compensation, it is repair, about one or two thousand." ”

Written by: Nandu reporter Zhang Linfei